Hi,
attached is a copy of "IBM PUBLIC LICENSE", extracted from the just
released Data Explorer 4.0 source. I don't know if this is the same as
Jike's license, but I catched my eye that Freshmeat lists this thing as
"OpenSource". I have read this, and all I can say right now is "this is
confusing!!!". I browsed IBM's site, but I couldn't find any reference that
claims this license is OpenSource...
Marcelo

IBM PUBLIC LICENSE - Open Visualization Data Explorer VERSION 1.0
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